Cybersecurity
Notorious ‘Anonymous’ Hacker Nabbed in Mexico, Deported to U.S.
- Doyon fled U.S. after allegedly taking down county website
- He was deported from Mexico and appeared in court on June 14
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A group of homeless men and women in California were protesting the city of Santa Cruz’s decades-old prohibition against overnight encampments in August 2010 when police officers attempted to disband the rally by detaining the protesters.
Among those arrested was Christopher Doyon, then a 45-year-old vagabond, according to local press reports. Doyon -- who goes by the online moniker “Commander X” -- also happened to be a member of the hacking group, Anonymous, and three months after the protest, someone knocked out Santa Cruz County’s website, according to a 2011 federal indictment unsealed Monday.